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Squirrel Cuckoo

Piaya cayana

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Description:

Photos take in a jungle path , This large and extremely long-tailed cuckoo is 40.5–50 cm long and weighs 95–120 grams. The adult has mainly chestnut upperparts and head, becoming paler on the throat. The lower breast is grey and the belly is blackish. The central tail feathers are rufous, but the outer are black with white tips. The bill is yellow and the iris is red. Immature birds have a grey bill and eyering, brown iris, and less white in the tail. It resembles the Little Cuckoo, but that species is smaller and has a darker throat

Habitat:

Found in wooded habitats from northwestern Mexico to northern Argentina and Uruguay, and on Trinidad

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